From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 18:51:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1686E16A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791C243FF9 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031001015148.EYVL4129.out008.verizon.net@mac.com>; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:51:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3F7A3327.9030203@mac.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:51:35 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Goodman References: <1476593828.20030930175150@fastserve.net> In-Reply-To: <1476593828.20030930175150@fastserve.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:51:48 -0500 cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Passwd command slow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 01:51:51 -0000 Greg Goodman wrote: > I have a server running freebsd 4.8. > When you type the command "passwd" it hangs for more than 2 minutes > before it finally responds and prompts to change an existing users > password. > > Can anyone shed some light on this issue? That sounds a lot like an NIS timeout. Are you using NIS, or do you have a domainname set? Try running "passwd -l" and see whether that goes faster... -- -Chuck